Source: The School of Flowers was written by Tagore, an Indian poet, and translated by Zheng Zhenduo. It was changed when it was selected into the textbook.
Tagore is a famous Indian poet, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature with Gitanjaly and was also the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poems enjoy a high status in India, and his masterpieces include Chittaglia, Birds, Gardener, Crescent Moon and so on.
This article is selected from 1986, a collection of children's prose poems, Crescent Moon Collection. At this time, Tagore was in the prime of life, and his career continued to make progress. The birth of his first daughter coincided with the poet's inner joy, so he wrote such a poem.
The school connotation of flowers
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This is a beautiful and childlike poem. The author uses personification to develop rich imagination and depicts children's beauty, liveliness and playfulness with their eyes.
This poem has four parts. The language and situation described in the poem can arouse students' related emotional experience, stimulate their interest in learning and make them feel close to the content of learning. This kind of introduction page fits the unit theme of Unit 1 of Grade 3 Chinese textbook: beautiful campus, cradle of growth, place of dreaming of sailing.
However, if we read this poem carefully, we will find that this "school of flowers" is not so simple: Mom, I really think those flowers go to an underground school. They do their homework with the door closed. If they want to play games before school, their teacher will punish them for standing in the corner.
The School of Flowers is selected from Tagore's prose poem Crescent Moon Collection. It is a beautiful prose poem with childlike interest, which has the characteristics of both poetry and prose and has the beauty of rhythm.
The text depicts a group of lively and naive flower girl who yearn for freedom from the perspective of children. Through rich imagination, the feelings between children and mothers are naturally and profoundly expressed.